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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220345-06
Color: Black and White and Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1948,1950s,1970s,1980s
Country: Germany,Germany, Korea, Vietnam,USA
Location: Berlin
TC Begins: 09:29:51
TC Ends: 09:39:19
Duration: 00:09:28
Air Force Now - Birth and History of the Air Force Pt. 2 of 2 1948 Berlin Blockade & airlift - closing down electricity. Sign ‘Russian zone ”Berlin street. Gale Halverson interview, SOF. Loading supplies into plane; planes takeoff. Walter Cronkite SOF about airlift. Landing at Templehoff. Distributing food. 09:31:09 Sept51 Headline: “N. Korea Reds Declare War”. Migs, air combat dogfighting. Korean War Ace pilot Francis Gabby Gabresk SOF to camera re battle & Colour combat footage. GOOD pilot & cockpit scene. Plane explosion. Jets takeoff and in flight. F-100, F-101 and F-102. B-47 & B-52. Feb54 H-bomb blast - re ICBM thermonuclear warheads. General Bernie Schrieber lecturing. V2 Rocket. X-15 rocket research aircraft dropping X-15 & pilot Pete Knight describes mission; landing on dry lake bed. 09:34:43 Vietnam - war planes over jungles. Dropping bombs, rockets. Ground combat. Napalm explosions on ground. Firing machine-gun from helicopter. Machine-gun bullets. Rescued pilot lands at base. 09:35:29 Mrs. Aldova Ford, wife of pilot Captain David E. Ford captured in 1967, interviewed with kids. 1973 Return of Vietnam POWs “Operation Homecoming”; aboard aircraft; welcome committee. Lt. Col Lewis Shattuck w/ eye patch talking of release. 09:36:55 1970s developments: A-10 Thunderbird in flight. F-15 & F-16; A-10; B-1; AWACS; stretched C-141; C-5 w/ modified wings; KC-10 refueling fighter. Rocket launch. Space satellite. 09:37:59 Vice-commander of Space Command Richard Henry SOF on space revolutioning warfare. Rocket launches w/ shuttle; landing of shuttle. Space and stars. 09:38:54 Brief montage from early flight to space rockets. Military Promotional Propaganda;